the delmarva. a couple of snow showers behind, but after this goes through, that's about it. fairfax county, and into portions of loudoun county. once these roll through, that's going to be about it. we'll zoom in. this could be heavier snow shower between sterling. once that rolls through, that is about it. cannot rule out a flurry for the next few hours, but the accumulating snow is over. temperature wise, some kind of cold. 21 in manassas. it's 16 in gaithersburg. 22 downtown. 20 in la plata. it is 16 up in baltimore. so, for tonight, look at the lows. 16 to 24. early flurry. partial clearing and cold. winds out of the northwest at 10. it will not become breezy until tomorrow. we'll talk about if we'll finally make it above freezing. it hasn't been above freezing since monday, derek. >> topper just mentioned, less than an inch of snow

accumulated around here, but some of our side roads are slick out there. erica is out in gaithersburg. she is monitoring that situation. erica. >> the moon is now shining over a light blanket of snow here in montgomery county. we are in gaithersburg, looks like we have an inch here and route 355 during the evening commute is just wet. the drivers are helping to keep the temperature of the road well above freezing, but on side streets, such as right here, westland drive, we do have a slushy coating on the roadways. and temperatures, as you probably know, are well below freezing. in the teens throughout much of the d.c. metro area, which means that overnight tonight, we will see some refreezing. we will see slick spots out here. but the snow, here in gaithersburg, is pretty much over with. i'm meteorologist erica grove, wusa9. >> thank you erica. well this had nothing to do with the snow, however, an suv clipped the rear end of the d.c. ambulance in southeast

this afternoon and that suv flipped over and the woman inside it was killed. it happened just after 2:00 near the intersection of 12th and southern. investigators say the woman was driving the vehicle. she also then slammed into several other cars. she died at the scene. two firefighters went to the hospital. their injuries were minor. d.c. police made a quick arrest in the murder early today and it took the life of a teenager. the victim, 18-year-old nicole lee of takoma park. police found her shot to death about 3:30 in the morning at 5th and nicolson. hours later, they caught up with a man th say pulled the trigger. he is 21-year-old alexander. he and the young woman did know each other. >> and a man who pled guilty to terrorizing a daycare center back in april of 2012 sentenced to twenty years in prison this afternoon. that attack left a young security guard blind in one eye. some children just traumatized. scott broom is live with the

rest of the story. >> 27-year-old michael young's excuse is that he was high on pcp. it's an attack that cost a young security guard the site in his right eye and terrorized more than 80 children ages 4 and younger. >> please. we have 80 children. >> it's a 911 call and security camera video made michael young crazy. inside the family affair daycare in landover last april. young became enraged when he is deny the use of a phone. security guard, farmer, confronted young with a fact, but was over powered, badly beaten, and blind in one eye. >> today, young was sentenced to twenty years for the attack. which terrorized dozens of infants and toddlers as he smashed glass throughout the daycare center. >> i cook and clean, oh my god. >> john speaks for the prince georges county state's attorneys office, calling farmer a hero for confronting

young. >> without his quick thinking and action, the innocent children in that center could have been hurt. >> the farmer left the courthouse. his blinded eye protected by dark glasses. before he was taken away, young did turn to farmer and his family and apologize. he said, i never meant to hurt any children. at the prince georges county courthouse, scott broom, wusa9. >> president obama has chosen his long time adviser. he is taking over as jack lew. he advised mr. obama for a decade now and most recently served as the president's deputy adviser. you will get a chance to see the president and the secretary of state together one more time before she leaves the cabinet. the white house said president obama and hillary clinton will give a 60 minute joint interview. clinton will soon be replaced by john kerry and being mentioned as a possible presidential candidate for

2016. that interview will air this coming sunday right here on wusa9. >> virginia republicans are flexing some serious muscle. days after the state senate passed a bill to box some democrats out of their district, they are considering a plan that would have handed mitt romney most of the commonwealth lektorial votes. bruce leshan reports from richmond on the gop power play. >> in a capital that once celebrated its gentility, politics have once again turned hardball. >> they couldn't win it fair and square, so they'll try and win it this way. >> interesting, making some news. i have heard that. >> a republican state senator from red and rural southwest, virginia, has introduced a bill that would scuttle the system that handed the commonwealth's 13 electoral votes to president obama. it would portion electoral votes by congressional district. that would have given mitt romney nine votes and president

obama just four. >> all those across virginia that actually came out and supported mitt romney felt that they deserved that. >> under this law, romney would have won virginia. he would have had the majority of the electoral votes. >> folk, this week's alpha dogs are the pack of purebred republicans in the virginia state senate. >> the electoral vote plan and a vote to retool senate districts while a democrat was away at the mlk day presidential inauguration, made it for tv comics. >> in the words of dr. king, i have been to the mountain top and while i was there, they heavily redistricted the promise land. >> but it now looks unlikely that the electoral vote plan will pass. two republican state senators have just said that they oppose it and in a senate that is split 20 to 20, that's enough

to scuttle it. he owes that to the mitt romney supporters who sent him to richmond. bruce leshan, wusa9. >> and that committee vote is likely to happen early next week. the final vote on senate district lines could come tuesday. can you really get in shape without actually doing very much? one group says yeah, they have a secret plan. we'll find out

well, there is something new out there in the search for gain without strain. this one is called goga and instead of exercise, there's this sort of whole body vibration machine thing happening. it will shake you into shape. i know what you're thinking, what a bunch of nonsense. the instructors say that as the machine moves, your muscles contract. so, you get 4 to 6,000 muscle

contractions in a ten minute session and they claim that gives you the same result of an hour long workout. folks say it actually works. >> the biggest part for me, which totally thrilled me, was i lost an inch off my hips and waist and chest in a month. >> regulars say it gives them more energy, it helps them sleep better. the studios are beginning to open all across the country. when a young dad goes to prison, it can leave a family broken. once that father gets out of prison, it might be too late to put the family back together. there's a program in d.c. working to restore that sense of family for men who are reentering society. it's called the fathering court initiative. today was graduation day for ten more men who completed the program. >> it's not just paying child support, but reconnecting these dads with their children. that will pay off over generations as these dads, their children, and children's children are the value of

having families made whole again. >> of course, the key component to this, helping men find good jobs. that is proven to be critical in keeping the father and family stable once again. this next story will probably make you cringe next time you get on board a plane. the engine of a turkish airline plane caught fire in midair after it was struck by lightning. a passenger on the flight actually caught the incident on camera and it was also recorded from the ground. the flight was carrying 114 people, preparing to land when it was struck. the pilot turned on the motor's fire extinguisher and able to land safely. nobody hurt. we kicked off the weekend with just a little snow, but how will the weather affect your saturday and sunday? topper's forecast will tell us that. and the speed cameras are keeping you in check, but who is watching the watchers? we'll talk about that

we have a wusa9 exclusive for you tonight, featuring corruption and illegal use of funds. a police department sergeant is accusing the head of the city's automatic traffic enforcement program of doing. kristin fisher reports, the sergeant claims he has been removed from the unit after he complained to a superior about the program manager. lisa sutter. >> the program manager had been involved in a lot of things that i recognize

immediately as being illegal, against policies and procedures, and things that warrant immediate attention. >> things that sergeant robinson says he carefully documented, like a $25,000 payment to a nonprofit without proper approval. and an $824 bill for a staff meeting at a d.c. restaurant. all of it, robinson says, was paid for by the money for violations. >> none of the funds were used on the program itself, no services was rendered to the government, i automatically recognize that as being improper. >> he claims the program manager refused to void more than 100,000 citations, at the same time, she did allegedly void tickets. the conclusion, robinson says the allegations were upheld, but no punishment. >> today, the program manager continues to be in position

without any discipline. >> last september, robinson appealed to d.c. council chair, who at the time was chair of the judiciary committee. >> i give you four minutes, but that's it. >> robinson asked for an oversight hearing, but mendelson turned him down. >> a complaint such as he alleges, i take it seriously. i have no way of judging the accuracy and so what i do is i ask why to investigate to look into it. >> that office is the office of the inspector general. when i contacted them about it, all they would say is the office does not confirm or deny investigations. >> if there's one part of the government that is more useless than phil mendelson, it would be the inspector general. >> christopher is head of the local police union. he believe, like robinson, that part of the reason is being done that the photo enforcement program brings in millions for

the city. $95million last year alone. >> if you have someone bringing in dollars, no one wants to investigate this person or that office, that's a problem. even if there wasn't a problem this time, if that office knows that it won't be investigated in the future, that's a recipe for abuse. >> the reason i'm doing it is because the public needs to be made aware on what's going on behind closed doors. >> now here's where it gets interesting. after kristen's story aired, we did hear from the d.c. cops. a spokesperson contacted us with the response, it was the statement and it reads, the allegations were reported to metropolitan police departments division and the office of the inspector general and handled accordingly. whatever that means. okay. there we go. >> so, we had an inch today, on this date, back in 2000, good snow. good snow. about 17 inches east of town and 10 inches downtown. go to our website, wusa9.com,

click on my blog and check it out. let me show you a picture. this was taken about 6:00, 5:30, 6:00 this evening when the moon was out. but the snow was tapering off and this is a good picture. we're looking at a few flurries and that it is. this was sent to us by mike, and he had about 9, 10, almost an inch of snow. right now we have a -- 22 right now at national. dew point 16. the winds out of the south, southwest at 7. the pressure is still falling at 30.14 inches of mercury. so, cumberland had 3 inches. maryland had half an inch. perserville, virginia, almost an inch. and martinsburg, west virginia, had an inch as well. leesburg half an inch and alexandria had half an inch as well. so temperatures, that's the key tonight. it's going to stay cold, still looking at slippery spots on the side roads. 19 in bethesda. 19 in arlington.

this not windchills. 19 in fairfax. 21 in springfield. 18 at andrews. 19 up in laurel and 21 in annapolis. never got above 25 today. it was our third day with highs in the 20s. that has not happened since january of '09. this thing is just moving. about to clear the delmarva already. a couple flurries behind, but that's about it. except for, of course, our friends on the other side of the divide, where it will snow later on tonight and tomorrow with some lake effect snow. so, left over flurry possible. that's it. sweepable, not shovelable. it is dry snow, but some of the side roads are slick. put down just enough salt to cause it to melt and refreeze. breezy and cold on saturday. we might make it above freezing tomorrow. it's going to be close. 16 to 24 tonight. early flurry, partial clearing. winds out of the northwest at 10. by morning, returning mostly

cloudy. teens and twenties. factor in the breezes, it will be in the single digits. i won't be, but if you do, it will be cold. 30 to 35 by afternoon. you will need sunglasses. the next three days, pretty quiet. 9 weather alerts are all grown. breezy and cold on saturday. still cold on sunday, 36, but not as cold. look what happens, milder with a shower on monday. watch the temperatures take off. tuesday, we're in the mid 50s. wednesday we have rain developing, but not before we hit 60. temperature correction on thursday morning rain, hold in the 40s. and friday, looking at a will the of models. japanese models. we'll keep it dry and cold. throw some moisture our way, which means more snow. >> thank you, top. from our weird news file, you know how they tell us, don't text and drive. but when somebody told me texting and walking aught to be banned, i thought come on, seriously? apparently, yes, seriously. to england where a woman was walking along texting her

boyfriend. utterly failing to see the canal right in front of her. she falls in there. she just wasn't looking. she says out of the corner of her eye, she thought she saw some ice, but it was the water. she fell right in. she was in trouble. it was cold. luckily, a passer by helped get her out of there. then again, so will this video, which has now gone viral and will be there to embarrass her when she's old enough to have grandchildren. >> it is dangerous, i've seen that. that's not good. >> crossing water? >> we want to hear what you think. send your e-mails to mcginty's mail bag. the address is mailbag@wusa9.com. 9news now will be

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in our mail bag tonight, controversy in the nation's capital. the washington nationals preparing to unveil a brand-new fifth president to take part in those giant big head president

races that go on during every home game. you remember last season when they let teddy roosevelt win one for the first time ever. we asked who should the fifth president be? william howard taft, jfk, or the current white house person? some kind of presidential historian. my vote goes for taft. will he be able to race since he was our heaviest president? maybe he can be the race umpire. went on to become a u.s. supreme court chief justice. robyn, you are just showing off. and eric mccain gets the same answer. he uses process of elimination. definitely not kennedy. the man was shot and killed in the head, having a big head running around would be in poor taste. too many drunk fans throwing things. taft, stacey cruz seems to be the right answer. but josh says we need to expand the choices available. there should be a reagan and the people talking about the obama character. get over it.

it clearly says the current president in office. that means whoever is in office. the man won, get over it. and stacey cruz wants to know, what's wrong with leaving things as is? ridiculous idea, it's perfect as it is. why do people screw up good things. well, the problem as i see it is they let him win, the stick was basically over at that point. i figured the president would never race again, but perhaps this is a way to save the president racing franchise. i

jimmy kimmel with "e.t." today after matt damon hijacked his show. >> what happened backstage with reese, nicole and demi? i'm nancy o'dell. >> and i'm rob marciano. >> i think we've been planning it for, like, 9 1/2 years. >> [ bleep ] matt damon. >> demi cursing. nicole kidman's lap dance. ben affleck on cue cards. >> he doesn't even love you like i love you! >> the biggest star studded stunt in late night tv history. >> i'll tell you how they pulled it off. did three different people pretend to be manti te'o's girlfriend? >> i'm just calling to say good night. >> a new twist in the notre dame hoax story today. did whitney houston's brother introduce her to drugs? >>